Tag: Jake Berry

  • Jake Berry – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    Jake Berry – 2014 Parliamentary Question to the Department for Education

    The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jake Berry on 2014-03-25.

    To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps his Department is taking to reduce absences from school due to bullying.

    Elizabeth Truss

    The Government has made tackling all forms of bullying a top priority. It is never acceptable for a child to be bullied, victimised or harmed in any way and the Government does not want any young person to be absent from school due to the effects of bullying.

    All schools are required, by law, to have a behaviour policy with measures to prevent all forms of bullying among pupils. Ofsted now holds schools clearly to account for their effectiveness. Under the current Ofsted framework, school inspectors consider pupil behaviour and safety, which includes how well schools prevent bullying, harassment and discrimination.

    In the Education Act 2011, we strengthened teachers’ powers to discipline pupils for poor behaviour, including bullying. They can now issue same day detentions, confiscate banned items and search for, and if necessary delete, inappropriate images on mobile phones which might be linked to cyberbullying.

    We are also providing £4 million of funding over two years from spring 2013 to four organisations: Beatbullying, the DianaAward, Kidscape and the National Children’s Bureau, to develop effective measures in school to prevent and tackle bullying.

    Good schools create a positive ethos with clear expectations about pupil behaviour that prevent bullying from happening in the first place and deal with it quickly if it does occur.

    We recognise the effect that bullying can have, that is why on 17 March 2014 we published a factsheet to help schools identify and support pupils which is available here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/preventing-and-tackling-bullying.

  • Jake Berry – 2022 Comments on Suella Braverman Breaking the Ministerial Code on Numerous Occasions

    Jake Berry – 2022 Comments on Suella Braverman Breaking the Ministerial Code on Numerous Occasions

    The comments made by Jake Berry, the outgoing Chair of the Conservative Party, on Piers Morgan Uncensored on 26 October 2022.

    INTERVIEWER:

    [Was it right that Suella Braverman came back to the Cabinet?]

    JAKE BERRY:

    Six days is a long time in politics. It’s for the new Prime Minister and he must be free to appoint whoever he wants. However, what I would say is from my own knowledge, there were multiple breaches of the ministerial code

    INTERVIEWER:

    [Multiple?]

    JAKE BERRY:

    Multiple breaches of ministerial code. It was sent from a private email address to another Member of Parliament, she then sought to copy in that individual’s wife and accidentally sent it to a staffer in Parliament. To me, that seems a really serious breach and especially when it was documents relating to cybersecurity as I believe that seems a really serious breach. The cabinet secretary had his say at the time, I doubt he’s changed his mind in the last six days, but that’s a matter for the new Prime Minister

    INTERVIEWER:

    [Did she hold her hands up to it?]

    JAKE BERRY:

    I wasn’t at the meeting, but as I understand it the evidence was put to her and she accepted the evidence rather than the other way around.

  • Jake Berry – 2022 Statement on the Rules for the Conservative Party Leadership Contest

    Jake Berry – 2022 Statement on the Rules for the Conservative Party Leadership Contest

    The statement made by Jake Berry, the Chair of the Conservative Party, on 20 October 2022.

  • Jake Berry – 2022 Interview on Kwasi Kwarteng Meeting with Hedge Fund Managers

    Jake Berry – 2022 Interview on Kwasi Kwarteng Meeting with Hedge Fund Managers

    The interview between Jake Berry, the Chair of the Conservative Party, and Sophy Ridge on the Sky News Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme on 2 October 2022.

    SOPHY RIDGE

    [asked if Berry had celebrated with the Chancellor and hedge fund managers at a campaign reception]

    JAKE BERRY

    We often have receptions for donors and the Conservative Party, and in fact, these people should be lauded because we don’t have public funding for political parties. These are people who go out and make money and donate to political parties in the same way as they do for the Labour Party and the Liberal Democrats. In terms of that get together, it wasn’t a get together of hedge fund managers, it’s actually Britain’s leading entrepreneurs. Yes, I was there, but it’s the sort of normal drumbeat of treasurer’s events as we call them in the Conservative Party that we have all the time.

    SOPHY RIDGE

    [asked if hedge fund managers were present]

    JAKE BERRY

    I mean, I’m sure there were or there was, I think, one that I know of, but in terms of the rest of the people there, lots of them were people have grown and started businesses. In fact, the conversations I had, because it was my job before I did this, was people who work in the property industry. What they will say is they back this government’s drive to create growth in the economy because they understand that you cannot have a rising tide of prosperity that flows under every door in this country without first creating growth in the economy.

    SOPHY RIDGE

    [asked if Jake Berry acknowledged the Sunday Times story that as the markets collapsed he was at the Chelsea home of a Tory donor with hedge fund managers and financiers]

    JAKE BERRY

    I’m not sure that any of them did make money from the crash in the pound, but of course, you will know well that the pound had its best week against the dollar since 2020. People can read The Times if they want to.

    SOPHY RIDGE

    [asked for clarity on whether he was at the home of someone who had taken short positions on the pound in the past]

    JAKE BERRY

    Let’s be absolutely clear this is part of the normal drumbeat of the treasurer debates within the Conservative Party. I was there, there was no confidential information that was discussed, it was a sort of a get together with some of Britain’s leading entrepreneurs, who by the way, we should thank for creating growth in our economy and being on this drive to create wealth for every ordinary working family in this country.

    SOPHY RIDGE

    [asked about the Chancellor’s mood as he drank champagne]

    JAKE BERRY

    Well I’m not even sure the chancellor was drinking champagne, I think he was drinking a soft drink. But he was absolutely clear that he has set out a path for this country to create growth and the reason we want to create growth is to ensure that every family who is really worried about things like their mortgage rate would have been terrified if the government hadn’t taken action on energy bills. People seem to forget that just a few weeks ago, we were talking about 4 million businesses going bust, we were talking about tens of millions of people losing their job, we were talking about the average household having an energy bill of 6,000 pounds.

    SOPHY RIDGE

    [asked about the Bank of England having to step in with a £65 billion bailout]

    JAKE BERRY

    With the action that the Government has taken, we have cut on average £1,000 from people’s energy bills and we have stopped those millions of budgets going bust. I accept there is concern about the mortgage market.